Lodi growers set up sting on pests

Local panel teams with pest control experts, uses Spanish wasps to target Vine Mealy Bug

Posted: Friday, September 9, 2011 12:00 am | Updated: 7:17 am, Fri Sep 9, 2011.

The vine mealy bug has been pestering winegrape growers in Lodi for more than a decade, but the Lodi Winegrape Commission and pest control experts are fighting back with a wasp that savagely attacks the nuisance.

In vineyards scattered across town, Kent Daane, an entomologist from University of California, Berkeley, and a team of researchers released a predator to the bug with the hopes of curbing Lodi's population of the vine mealy bug in the coming years.

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Xyril Myer posted at 6:35 am on Tue, Sep 27, 2011.

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Growing plants is sure fun but quite a challenge as well. You need to encounter pest related problems before you reach the time of harvest. And I am glad to have read this article that tackles about pest management.
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